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Michael Haines, a national expert on campus substance abuse, will participate in several panels and presentations on the CU-Boulder campus, Friday, April 18. His visit is co-sponsored by CU-Boulder’s “A Matter of Degree” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant, the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity and the Alcohol Education Committee of the campus Housing Department. Haines is coordinator of the Health Enhancement Services at Northern Illinois University. He is noted for his research showing that moderate alcohol consumption is the standard for many college students.

The University of Colorado has terminated a lease agreement with the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity for a house at 1505 University Ave., due to numerous lease violations by the group. The building was offered by the university as temporary housing for the fraternity after the members’ permanent house burned in September 1996. Original plans called for the fraternity to move out of the temporary quarters in January 1997, when the university was scheduled to begin renovating the space for its Continuing Education program.

Learning how light is created and destroyed will be the subject of the CU Wizard show titled “Light, Lifesavers and Fireflies” on Saturday, April 26, presented by CU-Boulder chemistry Assistant Professor Kathy Rowlen. “We will explore everything from fireflies to fireworks,” said Rowlen, who will present the show at 9:30 a.m. in room 140 of the Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry Building next to the University Memorial Center Fountain Court.

Anne Tolbert has been named acting controller at the University of Colorado at Boulder, pending approval by the Board of Regents. Tolbert has worked at CU-Boulder in various capacities since 1981, most recently as manager of plant fund accounting and payroll accounting. Her salary will be $73,000 and she is expected to assume the duties of controller on April 25, if the appointment is approved.

The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Science Discovery program will host a night of family entertainment featuring a CU Wizard Show and a Square Dance Extravaganza from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. April 19 at the First Congregational Church of Boulder. Proceeds from the event will benefit Science Discovery, an outreach program of CU-Boulder that offers science presentations to young people through field trips, workshops, wilderness camps and other programs.

UCB CHANCELLOR CANDIDATE Interview Schedule April 14-16 Candidate Name: Dr. John Moseley Monday, April 14: 11:30-12:30 p.m. Meeting with Council of Deans President's Conference Room 1:00-2:00 p.m. Campus Tour 2:30-3:30 p.m. Open Forum - Faculty, Staff, Students UMC - Forum Room 4:00-5:00 p.m. Meeting with Student Government Officers President's Conference Room 6:00 p.m. Meeting with System Administration Vice Presidents Tuesday, April 15:

Five finalists for dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder will begin campus visits on Sunday, April 13. Following campus visits by each of the five finalists the search committee, chaired by Engineering Dean Ross Corotis, will make its final recommendation on the position to Wallace Loh, vice chancellor for academic affairs. The finalists, their current positions and the dates of their campus visits are:

UCB CHANCELLOR CANDIDATE Interview Schedule April 14-16 Candidate Name: Dr. John Moseley Monday, April 14: 11:30-12:30 p.m. Meeting with Council of Deans President's Conference Room 1:00-2:00 p.m. Campus Tour 2:30-3:30 p.m. Open Forum - Faculty, Staff, Students UMC - Forum Room 4:00-5:00 p.m. Meeting with Student Government Officers President's Conference Room 6:00 p.m. Meeting with System Administration Vice Presidents Tuesday, April 15:

Edward C. Stone, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and internationally known planetary scientist, will lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 15 in a talk titled “The Search for Life Elsewhere.” Stone has served as the project scientist for NASA’s Voyager mission since 1972 and coordinated the efforts of 11 teams of scientists in their studies of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. As the lead U.S. center for the robotic exploration of the solar system, JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology.

BOULDER -- The two finalists for the position of chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder have confirmed official visits to the campus next week. Dr. John Moseley, vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Oregon, and Dr. Richard Byyny, interim chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder, will visit the campus beginning with Moseley on Monday, April 14 (through Wednesday, April 16) and concluding with Byyny on Thursday, April 17 (through Friday, April 18).